Do you increasingly get requests from repository teams who want to register DOIs so they can meet growing demand from researchers and enhance the discovery and reuse of scholarly outputs in their repository? In this session, you’ll learn how the developers of Scholaris, a new institutional repository service in Canada built on DSpace, developed a scalable, community-informed model for delivering PID services and support to subscribing institutions. You’ll discover how the Scholaris team leveraged the DataCite API within DSpace, established effective community partnerships to offer resources and build capacity, and scoped their service model. You’ll also hear recommended strategies and key considerations for increasing DOI adoption across your repository community.
Do you increasingly get requests from repository teams who want to register DOIs so they can meet growing demand from researchers and enhance the discovery and reuse of scholarly outputs in their repository? In this session, you’ll learn how the developers of Scholaris, a new institutional repository service in Canada built on DSpace, developed a scalable, community-informed model for delivering PID services and support to subscribing institutions. You’ll discover how the Scholaris team leveraged the DataCite API within DSpace, established effective community partnerships to offer resources and build capacity, and scoped their service model. You’ll also hear recommended strategies and key considerations for increasing DOI adoption across your repository community.
Description (500 words): Do you increasingly get requests from repository teams who want to register DOIs so they can meet growing demand from researchers and enhance the discovery and reuse of scholarly outputs in their repository? Are you considering how to approach providing DOI services to multiple repositories across a networked model?
In this session you’ll learn how Scholaris, a new institutional repository service in Canada built on DSpace, developed a community-informed model for delivering DOI services and support to meet the needs of their subscriber community. This work included evaluating available DOI functionality in DSpace to scope the service offering and understand technical requirements, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for Scholaris, DataCite Canada, and local institutions, gathering input from the national repository community to understand adoption challenges and priorities, and developing effective workflows for configuring and managing the DataCite-DSpace DOI integration for multiple instances.
In two short years, over thirty institutions have joined Scholaris, with many looking to register DOIs for repository content for the first time as part of their migration to Scholaris/DSpace. You’ll learn how the Scholaris team met this demand and built capacity for DOIs through a variety of community-centred approaches, including partnering with the DataCite Canada Consortium to provide education and support, working with community expert groups and the DSpace community to share recommendations for adopting PIDs, and creating practical documentation, workflows, and tools to streamline DOI implementation for repository teams and Scholaris staff. You’ll discover how the Scholaris team addressed challenges along the way, future PID-related directions for the service, and considerations for anyone interested in providing DOI services and community building across a repository network.
Finally, you’ll also hear a real-world example from one Scholaris institution, the University of Toronto, about their journey towards implementing DOIs in a local repository context.
After this session, you will:
- Better understand motivations and common use cases for the adoption of DOIs in institutional repositories
- Learn how to design and deliver a multi-institutional model for providing DOI services
- Understand key decision points, considerations, and challenges for implementing DOIs in DSpace repositories
- Gain insight into increasing PID adoption and alignment across institutional repositories using community-centred approaches
Shelby Thaysen is the Scholarly Publishing Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office in Toronto, ON.
In this role, she is responsible for TSpace, the University of Toronto's institutional research repository, and the university’s open access journal publishing service hosted on the Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform.
Shelby is passionate about assisting researchers with their publishing, teaching, and research needs through her expertise related to copyright, open access, and information.
John Aspler graduated from McGill University with a PhD in Neuroscience. Although originally interested in music cognition, his exposure to a stream of problematic neuroscience-related news publications both cultivated and cemented in him an interest in improving public scientific literacy. John pursued his research at McGill University and the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit, where he worked on several projects about the media discourse surrounding people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g., fetal alcohol spectrum disorder). He is also Manager, Canadian Persistent Identifier Community / Gestionnaire, Communauté canadienne des identifiants pérennes at CRKN-RCDR.
Julia Gilmore is the Digital Projects Librarian at Scholars Portal and leads the development and delivery of the Scholaris shared institutional repository service, including coordinating the Early Adopter Program and participating as an ex-officio member of the Scholaris Network of Expert Groups (Digital Preservation Expert Group, Metadata & Discovery Expert Group, and the Electronic Theses & Dissertations Expert Group). She holds a Master of Information in Archives & Records Management from the University of Toronto and a BKin from McMaster University.